# Who else should we invite in the community?
**URL:** https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204
**Category:** This community
**Created:** [February 6, 2020, 11:17am UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204 "2020-02-06T11:17:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ftomassetti](https://d.strumenta.community/u/ftomassetti)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2020, 11:17am UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/1 "2020-02-06T11:17:17Z")
Who do you think we should invite in this community?
Is there a category of persons interested in Language Engineering who is not well represented?
Any specific person?
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### Author:  [@sandra.delpistoia](https://d.strumenta.community/u/sandra.delpistoia)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 8:54am UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/2 "2020-02-07T08:54:17Z")
I think we should invite anyone who has an interest in the topics we discuss.
We can do it through our newsletter and social network, or indicate the [community page](https://strumenta.community/) to people we think might be interested.
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### Author:  [@meinte.boersma](https://d.strumenta.community/u/meinte.boersma)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/3 "2020-02-07T20:29:55Z")
We could try Martin Fowler š Not sure heād be interested in this topic anymore, though.
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### Author:  [@iandrich](https://d.strumenta.community/u/iandrich)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2020, 7:33pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/4 "2020-02-09T19:33:34Z")
Below are Twitter handles.
Anne Ogborne is a strong invite (@AnnieTheObscure) ā she dragged me kicking and screaming into DSL land in the first place. Core contributor to SWI-Prolog, developed some testing languages, etc. etc.
Paul Bone (@Paul\_Bone) is currently working on a new programming language.
Gabriel Gonzalez (@GabrielG439) is probably the strongest marketer in the Niche Languages/Domain Specific Languages space. He created the Dhall configuration language.
The data science space in general seems to be in desperate need of a Tensor Programming Language. Myself and a few others have picked up the scent, so it might be worth poking around there.
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### Author:  [@jos.warmer](https://d.strumenta.community/u/jos.warmer)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/5 "2020-02-09T20:47:12Z")
We should invite Wim Bast [wim.bast@gmail.com](mailto:wim.bast@gmail.com). I co-authored the book _MDA Explained_ with him and he is the initiator of _Dclare_ and Dclare4MPS, a fully declarative incremental transformation engine.
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### Author:  [@ftomassetti](https://d.strumenta.community/u/ftomassetti)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/6 "2020-02-10T16:51:03Z")
> [@meinte.boersma](#):
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> We could try Martin Fowler š
Well, I tried. Letās see š
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### Author:  [@ftomassetti](https://d.strumenta.community/u/ftomassetti)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/7 "2020-02-10T17:01:20Z")
> [@iandrich](#):
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> Anne Ogborne is a strong invite (@AnnieTheObscure) ā she dragged me kicking and screaming into DSL land in the first place. Core contributor to SWI-Prolog, developed some testing languages, etc. etc.
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> Paul Bone (@Paul\_Bone) is currently working on a new programming language.
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> Gabriel Gonzalez (@GabrielG439) is probably the strongest marketer in the Niche Languages/Domain Specific Languages space. He created the Dhall configuration language.
Thank you. I wrote to the three of them
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### Author:  [@ftomassetti](https://d.strumenta.community/u/ftomassetti)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/8 "2020-02-10T17:03:46Z")
> [@jos.warmer](#):
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> We should invite Wim Bast [wim.bast@gmail.com](mailto:wim.bast@gmail.com). I co-authored the book _MDA Explained_ with him and he is the initiator of _Dclare_ and Dclare4MPS, a fully declarative incremental transformation engine.
Good idea, I invited him
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### Author:  [@digital-ember](https://d.strumenta.community/u/digital-ember)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2020, 8:03am UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/9 "2020-02-12T08:03:23Z")
We could ask Stephen Blackheath. Heās not a ālanguage engineeringā guy, strictly speaking, but he co-authored a [book on FRP](https://www.manning.com/books/functional-reactive-programming) and heās behind the Sodium FRP library and a bunch of itās [implementations](https://github.com/SodiumFRP/sodium), which I find interesting, not least from a language workbench point of view.
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### Author:  [@iandrich](https://d.strumenta.community/u/iandrich)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2020, 3:46am UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/10 "2020-02-13T03:46:39Z")
I was about to suggest @jdenhaan but apparently heās already here.
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### Author:  [@meinte.boersma](https://d.strumenta.community/u/meinte.boersma)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2020, 10:04am UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/11 "2020-02-13T10:04:49Z")
[Paul Chiusano](https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-09-30/semantic-layout) from UnisonWeb would probably be interested as well as interesting.
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### Author:  [@jos.warmer](https://d.strumenta.community/u/jos.warmer)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2020, 3:15pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/12 "2020-02-14T15:15:34Z")
Ahmed Negm [negmsoftware@gmail.com](mailto:negmsoftware@gmail.com) will be interested. He has built his own language tools in the past and we wrote a projectional web editor together at Mendix R&D.
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### Author:  [@jos.warmer](https://d.strumenta.community/u/jos.warmer)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/13 "2020-02-14T15:17:10Z")
Is there a place where we can see who is already part of this community, that will stop me from proposing people who are already members.
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### Author:  [@digital-ember](https://d.strumenta.community/u/digital-ember)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/14 "2020-02-14T18:45:07Z")
[https://community.strumenta-ops.com/u](https://community.strumenta-ops.com/u)
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### Author:  [@ftomassetti](https://d.strumenta.community/u/ftomassetti)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2020, 12:13pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/15 "2020-02-18T12:13:35Z")
> [@digital-ember](#):
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> We could ask Stephen Blackheath. Heās not a ālanguage engineeringā guy, strictly speaking, but he co-authored a [book on FRP](https://www.manning.com/books/functional-reactive-programming) and heās behind the Sodium FRP library and a bunch of itās [implementations](https://github.com/SodiumFRP/sodium), which I find interesting, not least from a language workbench point of view.
So far I did not manage a way to contact him
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### Author:  [@ftomassetti](https://d.strumenta.community/u/ftomassetti)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/16 "2020-02-18T12:16:06Z")
> [@meinte.boersma](#):
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> [Paul Chiusano](https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-09-30/semantic-layout) from UnisonWeb would probably be interested as well as interesting.
I invited him on LinkedIN
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### Author:  [@ftomassetti](https://d.strumenta.community/u/ftomassetti)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/17 "2020-02-18T12:56:27Z")
> [@jos.warmer](#):
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> Ahmed Negm [negmsoftware@gmail.com](mailto:negmsoftware@gmail.com) will be interested. He has built his own language tools in the past and we wrote a projectional web editor together at Mendix R&D.
It would be great to have him on board. If you are in contact with him could you please ask him to fill the form at [https://strumenta.community](https://strumenta.community)? Then I can just make him skip the queue š
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### Author:  [@digital-ember](https://d.strumenta.community/u/digital-ember)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2020, 9:46am UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/18 "2020-02-19T09:46:57Z")
I tried to reach out to him but he hasnāt repliedā¦ Iāll let you know if he does.
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### Author:  [@tajmone](https://d.strumenta.community/u/tajmone)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/19 "2020-06-16T13:35:12Z")
## Q. About Invitation Procedure
I have a list of collaborators who Iād like to invite due to their dedication to the topics discussed here.
Iām not quite sure how the invitation system works. So far, it seems that the only way is to write them and provide them with a link to [Strumenta Community](https://strumenta.community) home page, where they can apply for subscription by entering their email adress.
But this isnāt really an invitation system, for it doesnāt provide the community admins with any hints regarding who invited the subscriber.
## An Invitation Form for Active Members?
Doesnāt the software behind the forum allow to enable a real invitation system , where active members can invite third parties by providing their email address and add a custom message (that would be appended to a default invitation text)? This would be a better solution IMO, and would allow admins to know who is actually inviting new members (introducing a trust-policy of sorts).
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### Author:  [@ftomassetti](https://d.strumenta.community/u/ftomassetti)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://d.strumenta.community/t/who-else-should-we-invite-in-the-community/204/20 "2020-06-17T16:22:22Z")
> [@tajmone](#):
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> I have a list of collaborators who Iād like to invite due to their dedication to the topics discussed here.
Great!
> [@tajmone](#):
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> Iām not quite sure how the invitation system works. So far, it seems that the only way is to write them and provide them with a link to [Strumenta Community](https://strumenta.community) home page, where they can apply for subscription by entering their email adress.
Correct
> [@tajmone](#):
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> But this isnāt really an invitation system, for it doesnāt provide the community admins with any hints regarding who invited the subscriber.
Well, the fact is that there are not so many persons interested in Language Engineering, so given the current volume of requests we just accept all people. Initially, we let people in batches, while we were understanding how/if this would have worked, but right now anyone which is interested in these topics is welcome to join
> [@tajmone](#):
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> where active members can invite third parties by providing their email address and add a custom message
Can you try to visit this page and see if you can invite people from there?
[https://community.strumenta-ops.com/my/invited/pending](https://community.strumenta-ops.com/my/invited/pending)
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